Thread: Would you

So... this person decided to rewrite the Bible in a way more appealing to themselves and the general masses? I don't quite fully understand your wording.

If that is the case, then no. I've already got my faith in what I believe is the true God and that is what I will stick with.

I believe the Living Word can speak through anyone. Does this mean they were given the whole truth, the absolute truth? No. The interesting thing about truth it can only tell you what is true or not based on what you know. But unless you know everything, you don't have the whole truth.

The bible wasn't written by one person, so I would be skeptical as to what one person has to say.

Give me a bible written by the collective humanity - then we can start finding more truth then ever before

I'm not sure I'm answering this correctly...

But like all other books I think the purpose of the Bible is to be interpreted by the individual. Not by clergy, your parents, or any other external entity. Call me crazy.

Insight from others can help, but I personally believe that the most meaning comes from something you arrive at on your own.

So...yeah. I'm always interested in the interpretations of others. But ultimately my faith is my own, it doesn't rely on anyone else.

Originally Posted by youssarian

So... this person decided to rewrite the Bible in a way more appealing to themselves and the general masses? I don't quite fully understand your wording.

If that is the case, then no. I've already got my faith in what I believe is the true God and that is what I will stick with.

I was trying to say what if the Bible we know today wasn't the real Bible.

Originally Posted by juroara

I believe the Living Word can speak through anyone. Does this mean they were given the whole truth, the absolute truth? No. The interesting thing about truth it can only tell you what is true or not based on what you know. But unless you know everything, you don't have the whole truth.

The bible wasn't written by one person, so I would be skeptical as to what one person has to say.

Give me a bible written by the collective humanity - then we can start finding more truth then ever before

Originally Posted by acatalephobic

I'm not sure I'm answering this correctly...

But like all other books I think the purpose of the Bible is to be interpreted by the individual. Not by clergy, your parents, or any other external entity. Call me crazy.

Insight from others can help, but I personally believe that the most meaning comes from something you arrive at on your own.

So...yeah. I'm always interested in the interpretations of others. But ultimately my faith is my own, it doesn't rely on anyone else.

I was aiming this towards agnostics but I fail. Hard. I shall stay out of this forum for a long long time!

Oh hell. I tried really hard to be all-accepting with that post.

...I used to be agnostic. Does that count? I didn't realize stereotypes were that important.

You didn't fail. I liked your post quite a bit.

Maybe for reasons other than what you'd intended...Oops.

I'm a kind of agnostic figure.


You basically mean if the bible was actually far more morally attuned to our present sophistication in contrast to the current Bible we have, which shows glaringly dated moral views.

If that isn't what you mean, correct me.

If that was the case, and this book emerged, I would welcome it. If it made convincing moral points I would enjoy that. But, if it made extraordinary literal claims about the way the world is, It would have no effect how moral it was, if those claims were as baseless as they are in our known Bible. Faith, in the sense you mean, is about belief. The more morally sophisticated something is, I can admire it more, but it will have no effect at all on how much I believe it's claims about the way existence is. Except moral claims.

Complex.

If it isn't the real Bible that they're preaching to me at church on Sundays? Erm, well, that could be a problem.

Well, being an atheist and all I'd have but one thing to say,

[Edit:]Aw man, I though it said Where are your gods now. Dammit.

I'm fairly positive this is what you call a non-dogmatic religion or faith... so yes I would say I believe in these religions.

Did Jesus really perform miracles? I don't think so. Was he a good guy? Absolutely. Did he want a religion to follow him for things he never said? Doubtful.

He's just misunderstood!

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

I'm fairly positive this is what you call a non-dogmatic religion or faith... so yes I would say I believe in these religions.

Did Jesus really perform miracles? I don't think so. Was he a good guy? Absolutely. Did he want a religion to follow him for things he never said? Doubtful.

He's just misunderstood!

Well said, friend.

I'm not fully getting the OP...

But here's something interesting to add. The oldest translated Bible we have is from around 400AD, it's called "Codex Sinaiticus".

Interestingly enough... there is only a marginal difference between that bible, and the current ones we use today. I'd have figured the current bible would be very different, or diluted in someway... but I guess not.

Wait; Is the bible today not changed periodically?? Is that not why they release a new version every so often??